I use Dreamhost as my web host for all things web related because they give me waddle of storage space and bandwidth. But their email system kinda sucks when it comes to spam. So I’ve been supplementing it with ESVA.

First of all, a Virtual Appliance is basically a VMWare virtual machine image designed to run out of the box to perform a specific application function(s). These appliances can be run using the free to download VMWare Player or VMWare Server.

ESVA acts as a mail relay for all my domains. It uses variety of tools (virus scanning, spamassassin, greylisting, black/white listing, etc) to filter out unwanted mail. It has reduced the number of email actually delivered to my mail systems by 90% and successfully identified spam about 95% while only having 2 emails falsely identified as spam in the past 2 months (approximately 20000 emails).

New version of ESVA was released today. Version 1.6 includes MailWatch, a much requested addition, to help with monitoring and managing quarantined messages.

Official site: http://www.global-domination.org/ESVA/16/

Download Mirror: http://esva.extraneus.com/ESVA1.6.4.zip

VMWare Applicance Listing: http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/542

VMWare Forum Discussion: http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=60005

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